since feeling is first
e.e. cummings
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
– the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
danah boyd: “The Significance of Social Software” (pdf)
Guy Kawasaki: By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09
Seth Finkelstein: The Dr. Robert Lindeman / “Flea” anonymous blog outing – Blogging HARMS! (Read “Blogger unmasked, court case upended” right away!)
Invisible Inkling: 10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head (subscribe to this blog now!)
A VC: The Free Music Business
akkamsrazor.com: The New Creative Class: A Threat to the Republic…
Christophe Coenraets: Flex-based SQLAdmin for Google Gears (niiiiceeee)
tecosystems: The Gears That Power the Tubes: The Google Gears Q&A (via rc3.org)
Tim Bray: Gears
MediaShift: Interview with Placeblogger’s Lisa Williams. Read this for some insight into why I’m excited to have joined the advisory board.
KCNN: Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News?. I was honored to be interviewed and a few of my answers are quoted in the report.
fortuitous: How Ads Really Work: Superfans and Noobs
NYTimes: For Pornographers, Internet’s Virtues Turn to Vices
TechCrunch: The New Portals: It’s the Bread, Not the Peanut Butter (wow, I’ve linked to TechCrunch – it’s gotten better as of late – gotta give credit where it is due.)
Deep Jive Interests: The Trouble With “The Decline In News” Has Nothing To Do With Journalists
Dare Obasanjo: Why Facebook is Bigger Than Blogging
Publishing 2.0: User-Generated Content Is Not A Panecea
Chris Daly’s Blog: Readers to the rescue?
Doc Searls: Because paper is scarce. And so is time.
Mathew Ingram: Doc Searls is dead wrong on newspapers
Kent Newsome: News in an Accelerated World
Rough Type: Happy Birthday, Cathedral & Bazaar. Notable for ESR’s comment:
…Open source is, fundamentally, about the software. Spewing a lot of Web 2.0 hype around it confuses more than it clarifies.
It’s legitimate to argue that open source software is strongly suggestive that similar arrangements that might work elsewhere. But it’s also way too easy to forget that some of the critical enabling factors for the open-source software movement are hard to replicate elsewhere.
Of these, the most important is the fact that the correctness and performance of software can be objectively measured — whether or not an application segfaults is not a matter of political dispute.
This, not the presence or absence of particular kinds of authority structures, is why Linux succeeds and Wikipedia fails.
Yaouch!
A big (day late) happy birthday to Dave Rogers.
Dave, just a reminder for you, of how much you’ve been an influence on me from a long time ago. I’m happy to have made our acquaintance across this big wild woolly world wide web.
The moment the writers of the Gospels set down the words of Jesus they began to kill the message. There is no room for prophets within religious institutions – indeed within any institutions – for as Paul Tillich knew, all human institutions, including the church, are inherently demonic. Tribal societies persecute and silence prophets. Open societies tolerate them at their fringes, and our prophets today come not from the church but from our artists, poets and writers who follow their inner authority. Samuel Beckett’s voice is one of modernity’s most authentically religious. Beckett, like the author of Ecclesiastes, was a realist. He saw the pathetic, empty monuments we spend a lifetime building to ourselves. He knew, as we read in Ecclesiastes, that nothing is certain or permanent, real or unreal, and that the secret of wisdom is detachment without withdrawal, that, since death awaits us all, all is vanity, that we must give up on the childish notion that one is rewarded for virtue or wisdom.
A thought to ponder for the day. (actually a few…)
A lot of folks are going gaga over Google Gears and its capability to enable partially connected web applications (web applications that can run offline).
Here is a paraphrase from a comment I left at Burningbird (Shelley Powers’s blog is one of my favorite places to discuss web technology and how it relates to society, politics, and more):
What really interests me about Google Gears is the local web server.
It’s the Dave Winer Fractional Horsepower HTTP Server idea (from back in 1997), that’s finally come of age.
Just what is possible when each of us have our own web servers, running on our desktops?
Immediately you think p2p heaven. But the possibilities for building collaborative apps is just massive.
I know, I know, for anyone who knows Perl, Python or Java, it’s never been too much of a big deal to spin up your own webserver, but this looks like it makes it more than simple – it makes it practical.
If I’m reading it right, you’ll need some form of centralized web app to co-ordinate collaboration across machines, which is no big deal.
The web’s about being connected. And it’s the online possibilities that Google Gears opens up that are rather mind boggling.
Becoming a parent when you’re young teaches you to grow up, by leading you to face responsibility.
Becoming a parent when you’re older teaches you to be young again, by seeing the world through their eyes.
Been a rough past few days at the hosting company I use. I’m hoping things settle down today and get back to normal. Hopefully then PF and the me will be back.
Hope you are having a good Memorial Day.
Dave Winer: What is Web 3.0?:
…There’s always been too much made of death in the tech world, in fact newspapers are still published, you can pick one up at any airport or train station. Many people have them delivered at home. We often go to newspaper websites for the news. Sure, there are problems, and the world is changing, but imho, we’ll all do better if something called the San Francisco Chronicle continues to be published, even though the form of the newspaper will certainly change in the future. It would be a waste of a tradition, of a good coral reef, if newspapers really died. They need to change, and imho, when that change happens, we will safely be in the era of Web 3.0.